Junior Application Security Engineer (all genders)

ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.

We are looking for a Junior Application Security Engineer (all genders) to join the Application Security circle of our IT-Security unit, dedicated to protecting our online shop, our corporate systems and our customers.

In this role, you will hack internal systems, design and implement security measures to safeguard our infrastructure, applications, and data. You will work closely with other security engineers, developers and IT teams to ensure security best practices, automate security processes, and respond to emerging threats. This position contains:

Responsibilities

Conduct regular penetration tests and code reviews; Advise in the setup and maintenance of applications and infrastructure (usually hosted in AWS/Kubernetes); Triage and respond to monitoring events; Optimization and automation of security auditing processes. This could also include setting up attack infrastructure, writing scripts in Python and implementing security scanning in Gitlab CI.; Take part in some incident response activities within the SOC, which include occasional 24/7 on-call

Requirements

At least one year of application security experience; Able to perform active application security assessments and penetration testing

Nice to have

Develop and script using Python (Required, PHP, JavaScript, or Go preferred); Architect secure systems using threat modeling and security engineering practices; Conduct secure code reviews across cloud environments (AWS/GCP preferred, Azure a plus); Execute red teaming operations and offensive security strategies; Certificates: e.g. OSCP, OSWP, etc.; Knowledge of Laravel / PHP.; Ability to read and understand JavaScript; Ability to read and understand Go; Experience with incident response activities; Experience with web application firewalls, CDN providers, e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai; Experience with Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines